Broadcasting Telecasting (Jul-Sep 1954)

STATIONS Kyle, Others, Purchase WRNY-AM-FM for $70,000 SALE of WRNY-AM-FM Rochester, N. Y., for approximately $70,000 by Stanley J. Bachman and brothers to a group of upstate New Yorkers comprising principals of WABY Albany, N. Y., was announced last week. Application for FCC approval will be filed soon. The station, which began operating in 1947, broadcasts on 680 kc with 250 w, daytime only. The fm station went on the air in 1948, radiates 7.4 kw on 97.9 mc. New owners will be David A. Kyle, Monticello, N. Y., businessman and president of WABY, 14%.; Laurence Sovik, Syracuse, N. Y., attorney, 20%; Dr. Donald Corgill, physician, McKinney, Tex., 26%; Mrs. Harriet Kyle, mother of David A., 14%; George Kaufman, Rochester, N .Y., businessman, 14%, and Edward Trudeau and Toni Brady, WABY executives, 6% each. Mr. Kyle also has an interest in WNDR Syracuse. Mr. Bachman and his associates will retain their 50% interest in WRNY-TV Rochester, permittee of ch. 27 there. NewWRTI (TV) Studios To Be Completed in Fall COMPLETION of $150,000 new studios of WTRI (TV) Albany is expected early in the fall, the station reported last week following FCC approval for switch in designation of the main studio location from Schenectady [B»T, July 12]. The ch. 35 outlet began operation in late February from its transmitter site outside Troy, N. Y. New studios are being constructed in the The best way to sell the KANSAS FARM MARKET use the KANSAS FARM STATION wibw "sT.RpAr Ben Ludy, Gen. Mgr., WIBW, WIBW-TV, KCKN Rep. Capper Publications, Inc. PRINCIPALS in the sale of WJBF Augusta, Ga. [B»T, July 5], were (I to r): William T. Stubblefield, Blackburn-Hamilton Co., media broker; J. B. Fuqua, president of WJBF, and of WJBF-TV, which he retains; T. J. Snowden Jr., present manager of WCPS Tarboro, N. C, and one of the new stockholders; V. E. Fountain, president of Media Inc., the purchasing group; Carl Sanders, attorney for. Mr. Fuqua; Vinson Bridgers and Frank Meadows, attorney and accountant, Media Inc. former Veterans Administration building at Albany. One studio will be 50x50 ft., another 16x25 ft., equipped with a complete kitchen and permanent sets for sports, news and weather shows. Other facilities include film lab, dressing rooms, 16 offices, storage and engineering facilities. The new site is central to WTRLs market area of Albany, Schenectady and Troy, according to Richard B. Wheeler, manager. WWTV (TV) Sets Tower Plans THE 1,282-foot tower planned by WWTV (TV) Cadillac, Mich., and delayed last fall by procurement difficulties, will be constructed this summer and fall, with completion expected about Dec. 1, the station has announced. WWTV's power also will be increased from 94.3 to 104 kw as part of the ch. 13 station's $200,000 expansion program. WWTV then will serve 41 Michigan counties with 1,286,600 population and 389,261 homes, 226,145 already equipped with tv receivers, the announcement said. The tower will be constructed by Truscon Steel Division of Republic Steel Corp. WSMB New Orleans executives John R. O'Meallie (I), vice president-general manager, and Harold Nebe, chief engineer, prepare to throw the switch on the station's new 5 kw RCA transmitter. WSMB is undergoing an engineering overhaul, and now has a 5kw standby transmitter and a 35 kw standby generator. KSD-TV to Drop CBS Shows KSD-TV St. Louis, an NBC-TV primary affiliate since 1948, is dropping CBS-TV programs that the station has carried the past five years. According to the station, the action follows an interim primary affiliation July 8 with CBS by KWK-TV St. Louis. KSD-TV will continue to program CBS-TV Mon.-Fri. daytime shows until Sept. 24, and certain Saturday, Sunday and evening live programs from CBS until the current 13 -week cycles are ended. Periods which the programs occupied on KSD-TV will be reassigned to local, national and other network advertisers, the station said. WHGR Houghton Lake Starts THE opening of 1-kw WHGR Houghton Lake, Mich., on June 30 received an enthusiastic welcome, according to the station's principals, Gordon A. Sparks, who also is manager of WEXL-WOMC (FM) Royal Oak, Mich., and his brother, Garnet C. Sparks, who is chief engineer of WEXL-WOMC. The brothers theorized that the new station was doubly welcome because of the remote location of most cottages and homes in the area and the difficulty of tuning in distant stations. WMVT(TV) to CBS-TV ADDITION of WMVT (TV) Burlington, Vt., as a primary affiliate of CBS-TV, effective Sept. 1, was announced last week by Herbert V. Akerberg, CBS-TV vice president in charge of station relations. WMVT, on ch. 3, is owned and operated by WCAX Broadcasting Corp., with Stuart T. Martin as general manager. REPRESENTATIVE APPOINTMENTS WNOW-TV York, Pa., appoints Forjoe Tv as national representative. WELI New Haven, Conn., appoints R. C. Foster, Boston, as New England representative. WTVP (TV) Decatur, 111., appoints The Boiling Co., N. Y., as national representative. WITV (TV) Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., appoints The Boiling Co., N. Y., as national representative. KCRI Cedar Rapids, Iowa, appoints Gill-Perna Inc., N. Y., as national representative. Page 68 • July 26, 1954 Broadcasting Telecasting